I Tend To Relate To A Character

Everyone Thinks That Fight Club Is A Very Important And Successful Film, But It Was A Massive Box-office Failure. Massive. It Was A Big Flop By Any Commercial-release Standard. And It's Been A Huge Hit On Dvd. Everything That Movie Has Become Has Been On Dvd. So You Can't Stake Your Sense Of Creative Success On This Whole Box-office-performance Matrix, Because If You Do, You're Going To Be Disappointed Most Of The Time.

The Incentive For Business Is Not, And Cannot, Be Anything Other Than The Root Incentive For All Business: They Must Profit.

You Know, Independent Films Have Been Institutionalized, Practically. Every Studio Has Got A Boutique Arthouse Label. There's Like, 18 Different Independent Film-financing Funds. In Fact, I Think The Children Of Those Films Are Getting Made. A More Interesting Question Is Whether Those Films Are Going To Get Seen And Appreciated.

In Drama, I Think, The Audience Is A Willing Participant. It's Suspending A Certain Kind Of Disbelief To Try To Get Something Out Of A Story.

There Are Tens Of Thousands Of Charities And Hundreds Of Thousands, Getting Towards Millions, Of People Now Using It. And When I Flip Through It, I'm Just Blown Away By People.